The Non-Religious and the State
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Edited by:
Jeffrey Tyssens
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Funded by:
Liberas
About this book
As the number of the non-affiliated and religiously indifferent is on the rise, this book adds a hitherto absent historical dimension to the field of secular studies. It shows a variety of ways in which the non-religious at large – be it organizations, networks or even committed individuals – impact upon the interface between the state and the religious or the non-religious. To what specific legal statuses have these processes led? What elements were taken into consideration when making these decisions? Who opted for a recognition of a non-confessional lifestance and why? Conversely, who opted for a wall of separation and why? Are things that clear cut? Doesn’t the variety of choices and frameworks offer a more varied spectrum? What continuities and discontinuities are to be observed in the history of seculars and their organizations? These patterns, divergent and entangled, are developed and explained within the broader conception of ‘multiple secularisms’.
This book adds a hitherto absent historical dimension to the field of secular studies, and shows a variety of ways in which the non-religious at large – be it organizations, networks or even committed individuals – impact upon the interface between the state and the religious or the non-religious.
Author / Editor information
Jeffrey Tyssens, Niels De Nutte, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium; Stefan Schröder, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Topics
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Introduction: Seculars Crafting their Lives in Different Frameworks from the Age of Revolution to the Present Day
1 - Part I
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Duelling with the Devil you Know. Secularism in Victorian England and its Relationship to the State
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Clashes, Competition and Common Goals: Italian Secularisms and the Liberal State
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The Atheist and the Court. The Failed Secularisation of the Judicial Oath in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
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Atheism in Judicial Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of the US and the Italian Constitutional Scenario
87 - Part II
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Adam and Eve or Eva and Eve: Gay Rights and Religious/Non-Religious Public Definitions of Marriage in Ghana
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The Price of Secularist Activism: Organised Unbelief before the State in Brazil
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Do Mexicans Support a Secular Regime? Types of Attitudes Towards Secularism Policies in Four Religious Groups
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The Religiosity of the US Nonprofit Sector and its Impact on Secular Women
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State (Non)Secularism and Religious Ambivalence in the Middle East
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Non-Religious Perceptions of Religion and Church-State Relations in Europe: A Cross-Cultural Qualitative Study in Flanders, Greece and Norway
209 - Part III
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Let’s Talk about Money. Questions and Challenges Around the Public Funding of Humanist Organisations
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Accomodationism as a Battlefield? The Local ‘Recognition’ and Funding Secular Humanists in Flanders in the 1970s
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Moral and Religious Counselling in French-Speaking Belgium since the 1970s. The Quest for Legal Recognition and Dignity
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Disentanglement of Church and State: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
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The Ligue de l’Enseignement and the French State since 1950: Between Influence and Dissonance
321 - Part IV
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Patterns of Decline in German Organised Freethought in the Twentieth Century
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The East German Association of Freethinkers (1988–1991), “Last Ideological Offensive” and Ultimate Troublemaker to the Political System
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Organised Non-Religion and the State in Contemporary Germany: Religion- Related Incorporation and Inner Conflicts
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Contributors
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Index
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